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This year's Fantastic Fest returns to the Alamo Drafthouse in South Lamar, Austin, Texas, with a special focus on new discoveries which means that if you've been following this year's genre festivals you can still look forward to something different. It opens with twisty thriller Beware Boiuna and closes with survival horror The Swallow.
The line-up has just been announced, so we're adding details here. Don't forget to check back for further updates.
The festival runs from 17 to 24 September.
View previous years coverage of the Fantastic Fest festival:
Fantastic Latest Reviews
Three young men travel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.
A fisherman falls in love with a rugged whaler on the isolated Faroe Islands in this unconventional vampire story.
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
Newly released after seven years in prison, Suleyman only wishes to return to Antwerp’s Paradise apartment complex and spend time with his ailing mother, but to protect her, he's going to need to fight cops and criminals alike.
Absurdist comedy centring on a wealthy American industrialist trying to reconnect with his daughter on a luxury trip.
An early reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic in which an ambitious scientist gets more than he bargained for.
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